Being One with Dao: The Emergent Notion of Freedom in Early Chinese Cosmological Texts
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DOI - Digital Object Identifier
<a href="http://dx.doi.org/10.1353/dao.2023.0000" target="_blank" >10.1353/dao.2023.0000</a>
Alternative languages
Result language
angličtina
Original language name
Being One with Dao: The Emergent Notion of Freedom in Early Chinese Cosmological Texts
Original language description
Several excavated cosmological texts from the Warring States period encourage their readers to stop practicing divination and relying on ancestral authority and instead start distinguishing what is right and wrong from within themselves. The texts describe this turn towards one's self as "embracing the one," "holding on to the one," or "being one with Dao." In the philosophical discourse shaped by the ancient Greek worldview, there is a contradiction between "looking for answers within oneself" and obeying a higher cosmic power or principle. However, using the proposed cosmological image to reformulate the question of human agency and freedom, one may obtain an alternative view of the self that may, under certain conditions, coincide with the undifferentiated source of all things and therefore be free in a radical sense. Through examples from the texts, both excavated and received, the article illustrates how the problem of freedom can be reinterpreted within a different cosmological framework.
Czech name
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Czech description
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Classification
Type
J<sub>SC</sub> - Article in a specialist periodical, which is included in the SCOPUS database
CEP classification
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OECD FORD branch
60301 - Philosophy, History and Philosophy of science and technology
Result continuities
Project
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Continuities
S - Specificky vyzkum na vysokych skolach
Others
Publication year
2023
Confidentiality
S - Úplné a pravdivé údaje o projektu nepodléhají ochraně podle zvláštních právních předpisů
Data specific for result type
Name of the periodical
Journal of Daoist Studies
ISSN
1941-5516
e-ISSN
1941-5524
Volume of the periodical
neuveden
Issue of the periodical within the volume
16
Country of publishing house
US - UNITED STATES
Number of pages
18
Pages from-to
1-18
UT code for WoS article
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EID of the result in the Scopus database
2-s2.0-85147411920